Category: Sustainable farming

• Do you want help with your vampires?

  Good.  We have just harvested lots of fat and delicious garlic.  Maybe I don’t want to share these with the vampires, tell them to grow their own!  They get too much publicity lately anyway. Vampires just ain’t what they used to be! Once clean of all the dirt, these were plainted into ropes and hung…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 11, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Barn, chickens and pigs, clouds, lambs playing, vampire garlic, walking stick

• Miss C gets her groove back

  The country house was heaving with children. The wedding  punctuated by baby gurgles and laughter.  We attended the ceremony under the trees, seated in rows of white chairs under big old trees planted by Johns grandfather and father.  I sat ever so calmly in my lovely summer dress my legs demurely tucked to the side.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 10, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  farm animals, flower girl, sheep, sippy cup, wedding

• The day it all fell apart

  I went out yesterday morning to milk and discovered that things were not going to be as easy as I had imagined.  Daisy was in a fury because I was sharing her baby.  She roared into the barn,  heaving herself about. Rolling her eyes at me and startling as the chickens woke and fell-flew from…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 9, 2012

  Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cows, dealing with failure, milking, pigs, sheep, teenager workers

• Introducing Baby Bobby Blanc

  Our baby calf has arrived. Both mother and baby are doing just fine. I am going to let the images tell the story.  A few of these shots are of the actual birth which was perfect. Magic in the field.  I thought I would warn you of the birth photos ahead of time, in case…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 8, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  ayrshire cow giving birth, birth of a calf, calf

• Pig escape Thwarted by Heifer

  Well, all my plans for a couple of  hours off, yesterday afternoon, were in vain.  The farmy had other plans.  Hairy Maclairy decided to stage a break in into the Milking Parlour.  A space he is not allowed to visit.   The Shush Sisters were re-homed into the pig sty. They literally romped in all…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 7, 2012

  Farm Animals, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  camera, cow, Dorset ram, escaped pigs, fencing, images, laptop, peacock, peahens